Car Throttle

If you've ever wondered what it would be like to own a one-of-a-kind supercar, you would probably imagine that it would be amazing! Every journey you took would entertain you with a glorious sounding engine, mind blowing acceleration and would especially entertain you around the country roads and around the local racetrack. It's not just using it that would make you happy though. Imagine a sunny day and you have just locked your front door, you turn around and suddenly you are dazzled by the glorious design and sparkle of your pride and joy sitting on your driveway.  All sounding wonderful so far. Sadly there will be a couple of drawbacks if you get the opportunity to own one. Firstly the fact

It's true.  It's part of the human psyche.  In a battle between David and Goliath, people are always going to hope that the slingshot wielding man takes down the towering beast.  Perhaps it's the societal interpretation of "Rage Against The Machine."  People want to see the scrawny midget kick the stuffing out of the club bouncer. And so it is, I believe, with cars.  Or at least it seems to be that way.  Case in point:  Nissan's GT-R.  Now, this is not to say that the GT-R is a Pygmy in a room full of Amazons, or extraordinarily cheap.  In fact, if you point your browser over to Nissan's website, you'll see that $89,950 is required to put a new GT-R in your driveway.  If

Do we really need a car that can do over 270mph and which wields 2,000 horsepower? The funny thing is you’ll struggle to find a place in the world where you can do more than 100mph and for that even a Fiat 500 Twin-air with a tiny 2-cylinder engine is good enough. So why are people making cars that have engines with power surplus sufficient to power 26 Fiat 500s? It’s the urge to excel; an urge that has driven the technological progress throughout centuries. It is probably better not to suppress this urge – after all, the majority of automotive innovations have emerged from the world of sportscars. In all honesty most people love to look at cars that have too much power! So let’s look

A new flagship Lamborghini doesn't exactly come along every day. I was born in 1987, and in my lifetime there have been three.  To be fair, I caught the Elvis-style tail end of the Countach, all festooned with slats and spoilers and junk that basically did indecent things to Marcello Gandini's masterpiece no mortal should have done.  The Diablo was the poster child (literally, child's poster) of the '90's, and by the time my car addiction had really gotten into full swing (10+ years now) the Murcielago was on it's way in. I frequently forget that the Murcielago is ancient in car terms, because it's so damn awesome.  But it's actually been around since 2001, back when you could still buy a car with pop-up headlights. 

I think Christian von Koenigsegg is a big fan of the "go big or go home" mentality. Good example of this: Lamborghini has been slowwwwly revealing their upcoming halo supercar, which will be debuting at Geneva next month, the Aventador.  You're probably heard about it.  It's pretty extreme, y'know: carbon-fibre monocoque chassis, brand-new 700 horsepower V12 engine, new 7-speed twin clutch gearbox, etc.  Pretty extreme vehicle.  What's more extreme than a 700-horsepower Lamborghini, you say?  Well, how about a hand-built Swedish sports car with 1,115 horsepower? The new Agera R is a higher-performance version of the regular Agera, which recently replaced the CCX as Koenigsegg's model.  While the thought of a "higher performance" Agera is a bit absurd (the standard model has 910bhp, remember), in

I'd like to introduce a new column here at Car Throttle which shall be named Supercar Sightings. In this editorial, I will be taking a look at various supercars I come across on my daily excursions around where I live in Surrey, UK. In the past few days, I've come into contact with a number of high-powered and visually attractive motors. This is probably of no coincidence as I spent a big of time today at a local Ferrari Garage and yesterday was perusing through cars at a Mercedes-Benz dealership. With regards to the latter, it came as a bit of a fluke that one of the customers happened to be pimping a Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder (2006 model). This particular driver was smart enough to ditch the